Articles

6 Tips for Facing Your Child’s Rare Disease Diagnosis

UNC Health Talk, Feburary 28, 2023

A collaborative article written by patient advocate Parvathy Raman Krishnan, Dr. Cynthia Powell and UNC in honor of Rare Disease Day 2023.  Provides valuable information and advice for parents navigating a new rare disease diagnosis.

Revolutionizing the Treatment of Cancer in Children

BioCanRx, January 27, 2023

Discusses current work being performed by the IRRDC.  Includes information about our new LOGIC diagnostic tool, upcoming clinical trials, and future research plans.

Summer Students Tell All

BioCanRx, October 31, 2022

An interview with Mary Agopian, a summer student who worked in Dr. Uri Tabori’s lab with the IRRDC.

Harnessing the Power of a Global Rare Disease Registry

Nature Portfolio Cancer Community,

An article by the IRRDC Program Manager, Dr. Vanessa Bianchi, discussing the work behind the paper “Genomic Predictors of Response to PD-1 Inhibition in Children with Germline DNA Replication Repair Deficiency”

From Heartbreak to Hope

BioCanRx, October 20, 2017

An interview with Dr. Uri Tabori, which discusses work being done through an Enabling grant from BioCanRx.  The goal of this grant is to learn more about patient response to immunotherapy.